Windows 7 has the ability to change the logon background
screen without the use of any third-party software. You can the logon screen by
customizing OEM. To do this you need to change the value of a specific register
key in registry editor. To do these first open Run (window key + R). Then type
regedit in that and navigate to.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background
- Then double click the OEM
background in the right side and change its value to 1.
- Choose your image to use as custom
logon screen and rename that image into backgroundDefault.jpg (NOTE: The maximum size of
the image is 256kb).
- The images for these custom
backgrounds are to be placed in the following directory.
- %windir%\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds
- The directory doesn’t exist by
default. So first navigate to %windir%\system32\oobe and then create the info
and backgrounds folder manually.
- To see the changes just log off your computer and Log back in.
Take a look at my logon screen wallpaper:
